Meaning: It is difficult to meet, and even more difficult to say goodbye, not to mention in this late spring season when the east wind is weak and the flowers are withered.
Source: "Untitled·It's hard to say goodbye when we meet" - Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin
Looking at the mirror at dawn, but worried about the clouds on the temples, singing at night should feel the cold moonlight.
There is not much way to get to Pengshan, and the blue bird is diligent in visiting.
It is difficult to meet each other, and even more difficult to say goodbye, not to mention in this late spring season when the east wind is weak and the flowers are withered. A spring silkworm spins a cocoon and spins out all its silk only when it dies. A candle's tear-like wax drips dry only when it is burned to ashes.
Extended information
1. The creative background of "Untitled·It's hard to say goodbye when we meet"
When Li Shangyin was fifteen or sixteen years old, he was killed by his family Sent to Yuyang Mountain to learn Taoism. During this period, he met and fell in love with Song Huayang, a woman from Lingduguan in Yuyang Mountain. However, their relationship could not be known to outsiders, so he could only remember his love in poems. Most of the poems written by Li Shangyin titled "Untitled" are A poem describing the love between the two of them. This poem is one of them.
2. Appreciation of "Untitled·It's hard to say goodbye when we meet"
This poem is filled with painful, disappointing, lingering and persistent feelings from beginning to end. Each couplet in the poem is a reflection of this emotional state, but the specific artistic conception of each couplet is different from each other. They repeatedly express the complex emotions that run through the whole poem from different aspects. They are continuous, subtle and profound, and successfully reproduce the deep feelings in the heart.
3. Introduction to the author of "Untitled·It's Hard to Say Goodbye When We Meet"
About 600 of Li Shangyin's poems have been handed down, of which a large proportion touch on current political themes in a direct way. proportion. Li Shangyin's epic poems have great achievements. They are by no means careless moans "reminiscing about the past", nor are they different from the poems of the predecessors that looked back on the past to express their feelings. Instead, they focus on drawing on historical experience and lessons to refer to political affairs and ridicule the current world, and supplement them to make them chant history. Becomes a special form of political poetry.
Untitled poetry is Li Shangyin’s unique creation. Most of them are based on the theme of love and longing between men and women. The artistic conception is subtle, the emotions are lingering, the diction is exquisite, the tone is harmonious and can be dense and dense, and it is soul-stirring to read. His childhood environment and education made Li Shangyin's worldview basically belong to the Confucian system, and his attitude towards life was to actively engage with the world and desire to make a difference.